Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edward Clark Lilley, prominent Broadway book director, is in charge of the direction. He has directed, among others, the musical shows "The Show Is On, "Between The Devil,' and "Virginia." This year's book was written by John MacD. Graham '38, Nathaniel G. Benchley '38, and Benjamin Welles...
...first call for the chorus is tomorrow night at 7 o'clock. The chorus will be under the direction of William Holbrook who has recently finished the dances for the new Broadway show "Who's Who." Paul Killiam, Jr. '37 who had a leading part in last year's show, besides playing in Dramatic Club productions, has a featured part in "Who's Who" under the name of Peter Renwick...
Walter Winchell is an editorially free man so long as he keeps his signed column to Broadway trivia. Let him pick up from his liberal friends a political notion at odds with the prevailing Hearst policy, and Walter Winchell might become as voiceless as a $35-a-week Hearst reporter. Rare, however, is such smothering as Winchell got last week...
Coriolanus (by William Shakespeare, acting version by Charles Hopkins; produced by the New York State Federal Theatre Project). Last week Broadway had its first chance to see Coriolanus since 1885. The play has never prospered in the theatre because, while it has high temperatures of rage and subnormal chills of scorn, it seldom strikes the 98.6° of ordinary human emotion. But what Broadway saw last week was a story which, though it lacks tremolo, shrills along as vibrant and masculine as a trumpet call...
...Town (by Thornton W11der; produced by Jed Harris). Last week 40-year-old Novelist Thornton Wilder (The Bridge of San Luis Rey) achieved a 25-year-old ambition. He became a playwright in full Broadway standing. His play, moreover, proved him as adventurous in the theatre as he is cloistered at novel-writing. Concerned with life in a small New Hampshire community, Our Town is performed with nothing on the stage but a few tables, chairs and stepladders to indicate the town's geography. Partly imitating Chinese methods, Playwright Wilder has veteran Actor Frank Craven serve as property...